Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' [Paperback]

This edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover restores the text to the words that Lawrence wrote.The Cambridge edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover is the first ever to restore to Lawrence's most famous novel the words that he wrote. Removing corruptions and errors and including hundreds of new words, phrases and sentences - this is the only text that can be read or quoted with confidence.The Cambridge edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover is the first ever to restore to Lawrence's most famous novel the words that he wrote. Removing corruptions and errors and including hundreds of new words, phrases and sentences - this is the only text that can be read or quoted with confidence.This edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover (and A Propos of `Lady Chatterley's Lover') newly establishes the text of D.H. Lawrence's most famous novel by peeling off the layers of typists' corruptions and compositors' errors that have seriously marred the novel for over sixty years. It is the first edition to restore to Lawrence's text the words he wrote, and the first to correct authoritatively the 1928 Florence edition that Lawrence personally supervised. The introduction establishes an accurate history of composition, publication and reception; the notes identify difficult allusions; and the appendix explains how Lawrence weaves real places and people into his fictional tapestry.General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Lady Chatterley's Lover; A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'; Explanatory notes; Dialect Glossary; Textual apparatus; Appendix. ...the editing has been done accurately and intelligently....The explanatory notes combine informative entries with textual notes....[T]he Cambridge edition offers the best we can expect. Simon Gatrell, English Literature in Transition